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the official new supreme court thread - Very political

Much of their orneriness comes down to opposing getting rid of the filibuster. That’s not an issue here.
 
PhDeac said:
Because they’ve fallen in line on all the other judges.
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So did some Republicans. I'm expecting a few Republicans to vote to confirm so that the Junebugs of the world can claim some fake superiority over Dems-unless their votes can make a difference.
 
I’m trying to figure out what victory Republicans would get from uniting against the first Black woman SCOTUS nominee to force the first Black woman VP to cast the tiebreaking vote.

I guess it probably appeals to some weird racist fears they have of “those people” overruling “real Americans.”

A wall of white rage uniting against a highly qualified Black woman to be thwarted by another highly qualified Black woman seems like bad optics.
 
Highland Deac said:
Lolz. "Watching her performance" - so he judged her performance to be troubling, but not the antics of his fellow GOP Senators asking misleading, irrelevant, or just inane questions that had little or nothing to do with her qualifications? Sure he had an open mind, sure. Looks like this may well end up being a 51-50 vote after all with VP Harris casting the tiebreaker. And that's a real shame for someone as clearly qualified as she is.
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Republican leaders are generally wicked, sadly.
 
Gooner said:
If Thomas does go down, I can't wait to hear McConnell and Co.'s excuses for why it's reprehensible that Democrats are trying to push through a second confirmation in an election year.
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When a SC judge dies is not the time to play politics and nominate a replacement. Have some respect for the deceased and wait until after the next election cycle.
 
Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks following the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post.

Those messages — part of 29 total messages obtained — reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and then-President Donald Trump's top aide during a period when Trump and his allies were vowing to go to the Supreme Court in an effort to subvert the election results.

The messages, which do not directly reference Justice Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used her access to Trump's inner circle to encourage and seek to guide the president's strategy to overturn the election results — and how receptive and grateful Meadows said he was to receive her advice. Among Thomas' stated goals in the messages was for lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, to become "the lead and the face" of Trump's legal team.

The messages were among the 2,320 text messages that Meadows provided the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The existence of messages between Thomas and Meadows — 21 sent by her; eight by him — have not previously been reported and were reviewed by CBS News and The Post. They were then confirmed by five people who have seen the committee's documents.
 
One wonders at this point if Clarence Thomas isn't really ill but just in hiding to avoid having to answer questions about all of this.
 
BarcaDeac said:
what questions would he have to answer? SCOTUS justices are rarely interviewed.
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Normally, yes, but after these revelations I wonder if the press wouldn't start asking him some questions whether he agreed to answer or not. Having said that, I was joking about his being in hiding - my guess is that not only is he aware of his wife's activities, he likely agrees with them.
 
 
Highland Deac said:
One wonders at this point if Clarence Thomas isn't really ill but just in hiding to avoid having to answer questions about all of this.
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There was a joke on Reddit that he had a stroke when he found out Woodward got the texts.
 
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Also, this infographic does a bit of a disservice to Kagan who was Solicitor General and was nominated for the DC Circuit Court in 1996, but Orrin Hatch torpedoed her nomination.

So the GOP can go eat a bag of dicks with their wink wink nudge nudge appeal to Qanon.
 
I dislike the 2nd row. The only good thing about Barrett was not being Ivy League. We need fewer Ivy League grads.
 
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